Yet another problem

[Pobega]

My News page seems to love showing a slash before every apostophe. Look at the first news entry here.

I tried using this script, but it doesn't look like it wants to work:

<?php
$newsFile = file_get_contents("database/news.txt");
str_replace("\'", "'", $newsFile);
$openFile = fopen("database/news.txt", "w");
fwrite($openFile, $newsFile);
fclose($openFile);
echo 'Your news file has been updated.';
?>

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

[brandtj]

That is called 'escaping.' Every offensive character for lack of a better word is preceeded with a backslash. To get ride of them, use the stripslashes () function.

$txt = stripslashes ($txt);

That removes the slashes, then you can print to the document. 😃

[Pobega]

Well, the problem is I don't want to completely remove all of the slashes. Only the ones preceeding these 'Offensive Characters'.

[brandtj]

That function only removes those types of slashes. It will not remove all of them.

PHP Manual - stripslashes ()

[Pobega]

That worked perfectly, thanks so much.